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STATS HISTORICAL SOCIETY AW (' 0l& tfff ttft COLUMBIA, 10. 652U
75th Year No. 188 Good Morning! It's Friday, April 22 , 1983 2 Sections 18 Pages 25 Cents
Senate compromises, backs withholding delay
New York Times
WASHINGTON - The Senate, ending
more than a month of contention over tax
withholding, Thursday approved a compro-mise
that would postpone withholding of in-terest
and dividends for at least four years.
The vote was 91-- 5.
With the exception of Missouri's Sen. John
Danforth, all those who opposed the agree-ment
were Democrats. They were Sens.
Alan Cranston of California, Edward Kenne-dy
of Massachusetts, Frank Lautenberg of
New Jersey and Sen Howard Metzenbaum
of Ohio.
The action, which fallowed a formidable
lobbying effort and a loud public outcry, does
not resolve the withholding question, howev-er.
The compromise, which includes provi- -
lions to increase tax compliance, faces an
uncertain future in the House of Representa-tives
and in the White House
President Reagan, a strenuous advocate of
tax withholding, has announced no official
position on the agreement but White House
officials have addressed it wanly.
One official, who spoke on the condition
that he not be identified, said that Reagan
was not likely to relent on the issue, partic-ularly
at a time when the administration is
seeking to display its steadfastness on bud-get
and arms control issues on Capitol Hill.
Thursday's vote came after the Senate put
aside an effort by Sen. Russell B Long, D- L- a.,
to win an outright repeal of tax with-holding,
which was passed as part of last
summer's $ 98.3 billion tax bill. The vote was
55 tot).
The agreement was worked out earlier this
week after Sea Bob Dole, R- Ka- n., who led
the fight to retain withholding, acknowl-edged
that he lacked sufficient support to
ward off the effort to repeal the provision.
" I offered the compromise on the theory
that we had to salvage what we could," said
Dole, the chairman of the Senate Finance
Committee.
He and Sen Robert W. Hasten Jr., R- W- is ,
who led the repeal effort, said that their
agreement would retain about two- third- s of
the approximately $ 18 billion tax withholding
was expected to supply to the Treasury, pri-marily
by cutting tax evasion The agree-ment
would stiffen penalties for tax evaders
and require the Internal Revenue Service to
implement faster means of matching inter-est
income information with individual tax
returns.
The Treasury says the compromise will
not be as effective as its proponents assert.
Under the compromise, tax withholding
would be implemented in 1987 only if the
General Accounting Office found that com-pliance
in the interest and dividend area
failed to reach 95 percent and if both Houses
of Congress consented to withholding. There
is some debate over how much compliance
there is now, but estimates range from 85
percent to about 90 percent
" I believe that the possibility of withhold-ing
is very, very remote," Kasten said.
Financial institutions have argued that tax
compliance could be raised by means other
than withholding
Tax withholding now is scheduled to go
into effect on July 1 The prospect of tax
withholding has alarmed banking trade asso-ciations
and many smaller banks, who have
argued that the provision is costly to imple-ment
At the same time, there was wide-spread
public support for repeal of the provi-sion
Some legislators, including Dole, regarded
Thursday's vote as a signal that the will of
the Senate could bt swayed by what Dole de-scribed
in Thursday's debate as a ' massne
lobbying campaign of deception and distor-tion."
Rep Norman E D'Amoun, D-- N H , who
has led the repeal effort in the House, said
that the Senate agreement was acceptable to
him.
The withholding agreement was attached
to a trade reciprocity bill, which would
strengthen the president's power to respond
to unfair trade practices The bill was ap-proved
by a voice vote
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Some of Thursday night's " Viewpoint" prin-ciples
arrive at Columbia Regional Airport. For
mer California Gov. Jerry Brown, left, leads
ABC personnel Stuart Schwartz, senior produc- -
Mirfc Harrison
er; commentator David Brinkley; Ted Koppel,
" Viewpoint" host; and writer Steve Steinberg.
Debate starts before TV show airs
Ted Koppel, Jerry Brown and David
Bnnkley looked lost as they wandered
across the barren runway Thursday af-ternoon
at Columbia Regional Airport.
But they knew where they were going
and it was not on a tour of central Missou-- n.
They came to talk politics m a city not
known as a political hot spot Yet for the
evening, the eyes of much of the nation
would focus on Columbia as big names in
national politics and the media gathered
for ABC's " Viewpoint" broadcast live
from the University's Jesse Auditorium.
Brown, who felt he was hurt by tele-vision
coverage in his 1980 presidental
campaign, took a shot at ABC nine hours
before the show even began. As be walked
from the terminal with ABC brass, he
spotted a weather- beate- n, antique Ford at
the curb. .
" This must be the ABC limousine," he
deadpanned.
Later, at his room m the Broadway Inn,
Brown spoke seriously about television's
effect on his bid for the White House. Tele-vision
reduced the Democratic camp-aign
to a two- hor- se race between then- Preside- nt
Jimmy Carter and Sea Ed-ward
Kennedy.
" Those two occupied the stage," he
said, " and television displayed the other
candidates as mere window dressing."
Brown complained that coverage in re-cent
elections has placed too much em-phasis
on personalities and has given only
superficial attention to campaign issues.
' Candidates are becoming less human beings
and more just faces on TV Brinkley
" It needs more depth in its coverage,"
Brown said. " It has to get beyond the one- line- rs
thrown out during the course of the
campaign."
Koppel, who anchored ABC's 1980 politi-cal
convention and election night cover-age,
shares some of Brown's concern
about the struggle among politicians for
1- min-ute
spots on the evening news.
" It's the snappy one- line- rs that do get
through," he said. " It is the attack on the
opponent that gets the public's attention."
But the politicians themselves share some
of the blame, be said.
Koppel admitted that television gets
caught up in " horserace journalism"
the tendency to focus on polls and person-alities
rather than on issues but said
there are noeasy solutions.
" When the races start heating up,"
Koppel said, " if I ask you if you really
care about the issues or want to know
who's ahead and why, most of you want to
know who's ahead and why. "
Lyn NozQger, political consultant and
former assistant to President Ronald
Reagan, said he does not consider press
coverage unfair. But it is not very good,
he added.
" Instead of trying to write what the can-didate
says," he observed during the nde
from the airport, " they say how he's
doing They ought to report an issue if the
candidate thinks it's important enough to
build a campaign around."
He agreed with Brown that the press
can become overly concerned with triv-ialities
along the campaign trail.
" It's not necessary to cover every slip
of the lip that someone says on the bus or
the plane," he said. " The main story is
what the candidate stands for and the
message he's trying to convey."
Yet Bnnkley, a 31- ye- ar veteran of the
campaign trail, pointed out that to be suc-cessful,
today's politician must be an ex-pert
media manager.
" Candidates are becoming less human
beings," said Brinkley, " and more just
faces on television."
Bnnkley recalled the days when cam-paigning
meant whistlestops throughout
the nation and making speeches wherever
audiences would gather to listen to candi-dates.
Television has made it possible to
reach the nation in one slick commercial
spot
Bnnkley said politicians refuse to dis-cuss
issues except in slogans, shorthand
and cute phrases.
" Once you start talking about issues,"
he said, " you have to start offering solu--
bons Otherwise, why are you running for
office'"
That question was very much on the
mind of John Anderson Thursday.
The Independent dark horse in the 1980
presidential race said he is considering
another run in 1984 He has sent 40,000 let-ters
to former supporters asking their
opinions on formation of a third party
He expects to make a decision in about
one month.
In addition to expanding the two- par- ty
system, Anderson would like to see abbre-viation
of the current 27- mo- nth campaign
process. Six months sounds more rea-sonable
to the former Illinois congress-man.
" Campaigns are so long that they inevi-tably
become dull," Anderson said
A shorter campaign would mean more
coverage of issues, he said, and less ob-session
with popularity polls.
Voter cynicism demands that today's
politicians be image- consciou- s, Anderson
said.
And Brown demonstrated that it does
not hurt to polish one's image with the
press as well. Wrapping up an interview,
he presented the reporter with a shiny red
apple.
" Now you can't say I never gave any-thing
to the press," he said.
This article was written by Pat Finan
with material contributed by Missourian
staff writers Todd Copflvete, Kevin Doug-herty
and Renee Tawa.
TFS7
8 p. m. Plays, ' A Doctor in
Spite of Himself" and " 27 Wag-ons
Full Of Cotton," University
Fine Arts Theatre, tickets $ 2 50
students, $ 4 50 faculty and
staff and $ 5 public
8 p. m. Concert, Missouri Arts
Quintet, University Fine Arts
Recital Hall, free
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Weekend 05- 7- A
Officials now leary of funding swap
By Miriam Marline
Mlsso- rl- an staff writer
County and city officials, chewing
over a proposed swap of federal road
and bridge funds at a joint lunch
Thursday, found the trade a little
less tasty than it seemed when first
proposed.
Columbia Public Works Director
Ray Beck said the trade might leave
the city holding the raw end of the
deal.
The swap idea first appeared
March, when the county found it
would receive more federal bridge
funds then expected. The county al-ready
had funded most necessary
county bridge repairs through
bonds. So me County Court asked the
city to consider a deal in which the
county's extra federal bridge funds
would boy repairs on a city bridge.
In return, the city would use its fed
eral urban road funds to rebuild a
county road.
But because of federal guidelines,
the county probably could spend
only 180,000 in federal money to re
pair a coy bridge on Rock Quarry
Road, Beck said. But the city would
spend $ 500,000 from the federal gov-ernment
to rebuild Vaughter School
Roadfor the county.
The state has designated a bridge
on Cedar Creek as its top prionty for
repair. The federal government cal-culates
its contribution as 80 percent
of repair costs on the priority bndge
or $ 180,000. But fixing Rock Quar-ry
Bndge will cost at least $ 400,000.
And that leaves $ 320,000 for either
the city or the county to provide.
Beck mentioned a few other things
about the proposed trade that he
found difficult to swallow.
Because a federally- funde- d bridge
must be built to federal guidelines,
repairing the Rock Quarry Road
bndge through the swap would cost
at least $ 130,000 above the $ 400,000
the repairs were priced at previous-ly,
Beck said.
And, on the road side of the swap,
any repairs on Vaughter School
Road would necessarily divert feder-al
funds from some high- pnont- y city
road project he said.
There's another catch, Beck ex-plained.
After improvements, the
road would attract more users try-ing
to avoid city traffic jams. They
would have to complete their city by-pass
on a part of Green Meadows
Road that also needs improvement
The influx of new drivers might
force the city to drag that portion of
the road to the top of the repair list,
shunting other city projects even
further down the list
Senate backs
big pay raises
for officials
By Jeffrey R. Scott
State capital bureau
JEFFERSON CITY A bill given preliminary ap-proval
by the Senate Thursday would make Missouri
the home of the third- highest- pa- id governor in the
United States in 1985 And Missouri's legislature
would become the ninth- highest- salan- ed legislative
body
The bill which would increase salaries of the
state's top officials in ail three branches of govern-ment
was approved by voice vote Next the bill will
be considered by the Senate's Budget Control Com-mittee
before a final vote by the Senate
The increase would cost an additional $ 16 million
from the state's fiscal 1985 budget
An amendment added Wednesday would allow in
creases for most other state employees to be phased
in during a five- ye- ar penod beginning in 1984 The
amendment accounts for $ 5 million per year of the
bill's estimated cost Most top officials would not get
their pay increases until January 1935
The bill, sponsored by Sen Ed Dirck, D-- St Ann, fol-lows
precisely the recommendations of a special com-mission
on salaries appointed by Gov Chrtstooher
Bond. Under the plan, the governor's salary would in
crease to $ 80,000 a year from the current $ 55,000 and
would make him the third- highest- pa- id governor, be-hind
New York and New Jersey at $ 85,000 each
Pay increases for elected officials range from 40
percent to 50 percent Bond's recommended pay plan
for rank- and- fi- le state employees for fiscal 1984 pro-vides
only a 2 percent ment increase.
Proponents of the bill point out that state elected of-ficials
have not had a pay increase since January 1981
and legislators have not had one since January 1979
The section of the bill that received the most scruti-ny
Thursday calls for raising legislators' salaries to
$ 21,000 from the current$ 15,000
Debate was spurred by an amendment offered by
Sen Emory Melton, R- Cassv- ille Arguing that higher
salanes would precipitate a full- tim- e legislature, he
proposed to delete members of the General Assemblj
from the bill.
" We ought to be a part- tim- e body," he said " It
ought to be an honor to serve in the General Assem-bly
Our Founding Fathers gave no thought to remu-neration
"
Those who agreed with Melton argued it was wrong
for legislators to raise then-- salanes by 40 percent in a
climate of recession and unemployment
But Dirck insisted the increase was not bad man
agement
" It is a raise that is consistent with raises given oth-er
state employees over the past eight years," he said
After Vh hours of heated debate, the amendment
was defeated by a 18- 1- 3 vote
Another amendment to soften the bill's economic
impact on state finances by removing annual cost- of- livi- ng
increases also was defeated Sen John Russell
R- Leban- on, argued the cost- of- livi- ng allowance would
quickly give legislators more than $ 24,000 annually
If Wednesday's amendment is retained, the bill
would give all state employees increases over a five- ye- ar
penod.
Beginning July 1, 1984, an 11- mem- ber commission
would meet to recommend salary adjustments, each
year setting aside one percent of the previous year's
state payroll Dirck said this would cost the state ap-proximately
$ 5 million a year, or $ 27 million over five
years
Workers in the Department of Corrections and Hu-man
Resources are slated to be the first to have their
salanes reviewed by the commission. The commis-sion's
recommendations will be subject to approval b
the General Assembly.
Smoldering landfill debate
heats up as deadline nears
By Leslie Wsrstsln
Wlssourian staff writer
Through a break in some bush-es
along Rogers Road, about five
miles northeast of central Colum-bia,
a man in green fishing attire
can be seen sitting alone by the
lake in the old Peabody Coal strip
mines. He is waiting for the fish
to bite.
Another man stands above the
scene and points to the place
where he, too, sometimes fishes.
" You ought to go down there
right now and ask that fisherman
how he'd feel if that lake were
filled with trash," says Fred
Martz, a 15- ye- ar resident of rural
Boone County. " This is kind of
1
0Gaamu
like a park back m here too. Any
number of Sundays we go to
church and there is somebody
down here watching birds or
walking their dog or doing
things."
Martz and 17 other residents
parked their pickup trucks and
gathered on an old dirt road near
the rolling hills of the strip mine
Saturday. They organized this
last- ditc- h effort to fight a City
Council proposal one of two
to locate a new landfill for the
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STATS HISTORICAL SOCIETY AW (' 0l& tfff ttft COLUMBIA, 10. 652U
75th Year No. 188 Good Morning! It's Friday, April 22 , 1983 2 Sections 18 Pages 25 Cents
Senate compromises, backs withholding delay
New York Times
WASHINGTON - The Senate, ending
more than a month of contention over tax
withholding, Thursday approved a compro-mise
that would postpone withholding of in-terest
and dividends for at least four years.
The vote was 91-- 5.
With the exception of Missouri's Sen. John
Danforth, all those who opposed the agree-ment
were Democrats. They were Sens.
Alan Cranston of California, Edward Kenne-dy
of Massachusetts, Frank Lautenberg of
New Jersey and Sen Howard Metzenbaum
of Ohio.
The action, which fallowed a formidable
lobbying effort and a loud public outcry, does
not resolve the withholding question, howev-er.
The compromise, which includes provi- -
lions to increase tax compliance, faces an
uncertain future in the House of Representa-tives
and in the White House
President Reagan, a strenuous advocate of
tax withholding, has announced no official
position on the agreement but White House
officials have addressed it wanly.
One official, who spoke on the condition
that he not be identified, said that Reagan
was not likely to relent on the issue, partic-ularly
at a time when the administration is
seeking to display its steadfastness on bud-get
and arms control issues on Capitol Hill.
Thursday's vote came after the Senate put
aside an effort by Sen. Russell B Long, D- L- a.,
to win an outright repeal of tax with-holding,
which was passed as part of last
summer's $ 98.3 billion tax bill. The vote was
55 tot).
The agreement was worked out earlier this
week after Sea Bob Dole, R- Ka- n., who led
the fight to retain withholding, acknowl-edged
that he lacked sufficient support to
ward off the effort to repeal the provision.
" I offered the compromise on the theory
that we had to salvage what we could," said
Dole, the chairman of the Senate Finance
Committee.
He and Sen Robert W. Hasten Jr., R- W- is ,
who led the repeal effort, said that their
agreement would retain about two- third- s of
the approximately $ 18 billion tax withholding
was expected to supply to the Treasury, pri-marily
by cutting tax evasion The agree-ment
would stiffen penalties for tax evaders
and require the Internal Revenue Service to
implement faster means of matching inter-est
income information with individual tax
returns.
The Treasury says the compromise will
not be as effective as its proponents assert.
Under the compromise, tax withholding
would be implemented in 1987 only if the
General Accounting Office found that com-pliance
in the interest and dividend area
failed to reach 95 percent and if both Houses
of Congress consented to withholding. There
is some debate over how much compliance
there is now, but estimates range from 85
percent to about 90 percent
" I believe that the possibility of withhold-ing
is very, very remote," Kasten said.
Financial institutions have argued that tax
compliance could be raised by means other
than withholding
Tax withholding now is scheduled to go
into effect on July 1 The prospect of tax
withholding has alarmed banking trade asso-ciations
and many smaller banks, who have
argued that the provision is costly to imple-ment
At the same time, there was wide-spread
public support for repeal of the provi-sion
Some legislators, including Dole, regarded
Thursday's vote as a signal that the will of
the Senate could bt swayed by what Dole de-scribed
in Thursday's debate as a ' massne
lobbying campaign of deception and distor-tion."
Rep Norman E D'Amoun, D-- N H , who
has led the repeal effort in the House, said
that the Senate agreement was acceptable to
him.
The withholding agreement was attached
to a trade reciprocity bill, which would
strengthen the president's power to respond
to unfair trade practices The bill was ap-proved
by a voice vote
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Some of Thursday night's " Viewpoint" prin-ciples
arrive at Columbia Regional Airport. For
mer California Gov. Jerry Brown, left, leads
ABC personnel Stuart Schwartz, senior produc- -
Mirfc Harrison
er; commentator David Brinkley; Ted Koppel,
" Viewpoint" host; and writer Steve Steinberg.
Debate starts before TV show airs
Ted Koppel, Jerry Brown and David
Bnnkley looked lost as they wandered
across the barren runway Thursday af-ternoon
at Columbia Regional Airport.
But they knew where they were going
and it was not on a tour of central Missou-- n.
They came to talk politics m a city not
known as a political hot spot Yet for the
evening, the eyes of much of the nation
would focus on Columbia as big names in
national politics and the media gathered
for ABC's " Viewpoint" broadcast live
from the University's Jesse Auditorium.
Brown, who felt he was hurt by tele-vision
coverage in his 1980 presidental
campaign, took a shot at ABC nine hours
before the show even began. As be walked
from the terminal with ABC brass, he
spotted a weather- beate- n, antique Ford at
the curb. .
" This must be the ABC limousine," he
deadpanned.
Later, at his room m the Broadway Inn,
Brown spoke seriously about television's
effect on his bid for the White House. Tele-vision
reduced the Democratic camp-aign
to a two- hor- se race between then- Preside- nt
Jimmy Carter and Sea Ed-ward
Kennedy.
" Those two occupied the stage," he
said, " and television displayed the other
candidates as mere window dressing."
Brown complained that coverage in re-cent
elections has placed too much em-phasis
on personalities and has given only
superficial attention to campaign issues.
' Candidates are becoming less human beings
and more just faces on TV Brinkley
" It needs more depth in its coverage,"
Brown said. " It has to get beyond the one- line- rs
thrown out during the course of the
campaign."
Koppel, who anchored ABC's 1980 politi-cal
convention and election night cover-age,
shares some of Brown's concern
about the struggle among politicians for
1- min-ute
spots on the evening news.
" It's the snappy one- line- rs that do get
through," he said. " It is the attack on the
opponent that gets the public's attention."
But the politicians themselves share some
of the blame, be said.
Koppel admitted that television gets
caught up in " horserace journalism"
the tendency to focus on polls and person-alities
rather than on issues but said
there are noeasy solutions.
" When the races start heating up,"
Koppel said, " if I ask you if you really
care about the issues or want to know
who's ahead and why, most of you want to
know who's ahead and why. "
Lyn NozQger, political consultant and
former assistant to President Ronald
Reagan, said he does not consider press
coverage unfair. But it is not very good,
he added.
" Instead of trying to write what the can-didate
says," he observed during the nde
from the airport, " they say how he's
doing They ought to report an issue if the
candidate thinks it's important enough to
build a campaign around."
He agreed with Brown that the press
can become overly concerned with triv-ialities
along the campaign trail.
" It's not necessary to cover every slip
of the lip that someone says on the bus or
the plane," he said. " The main story is
what the candidate stands for and the
message he's trying to convey."
Yet Bnnkley, a 31- ye- ar veteran of the
campaign trail, pointed out that to be suc-cessful,
today's politician must be an ex-pert
media manager.
" Candidates are becoming less human
beings," said Brinkley, " and more just
faces on television."
Bnnkley recalled the days when cam-paigning
meant whistlestops throughout
the nation and making speeches wherever
audiences would gather to listen to candi-dates.
Television has made it possible to
reach the nation in one slick commercial
spot
Bnnkley said politicians refuse to dis-cuss
issues except in slogans, shorthand
and cute phrases.
" Once you start talking about issues,"
he said, " you have to start offering solu--
bons Otherwise, why are you running for
office'"
That question was very much on the
mind of John Anderson Thursday.
The Independent dark horse in the 1980
presidential race said he is considering
another run in 1984 He has sent 40,000 let-ters
to former supporters asking their
opinions on formation of a third party
He expects to make a decision in about
one month.
In addition to expanding the two- par- ty
system, Anderson would like to see abbre-viation
of the current 27- mo- nth campaign
process. Six months sounds more rea-sonable
to the former Illinois congress-man.
" Campaigns are so long that they inevi-tably
become dull," Anderson said
A shorter campaign would mean more
coverage of issues, he said, and less ob-session
with popularity polls.
Voter cynicism demands that today's
politicians be image- consciou- s, Anderson
said.
And Brown demonstrated that it does
not hurt to polish one's image with the
press as well. Wrapping up an interview,
he presented the reporter with a shiny red
apple.
" Now you can't say I never gave any-thing
to the press," he said.
This article was written by Pat Finan
with material contributed by Missourian
staff writers Todd Copflvete, Kevin Doug-herty
and Renee Tawa.
TFS7
8 p. m. Plays, ' A Doctor in
Spite of Himself" and " 27 Wag-ons
Full Of Cotton," University
Fine Arts Theatre, tickets $ 2 50
students, $ 4 50 faculty and
staff and $ 5 public
8 p. m. Concert, Missouri Arts
Quintet, University Fine Arts
Recital Hall, free
Inside
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Sports .... 1- 2- B
Weekend 05- 7- A
Officials now leary of funding swap
By Miriam Marline
Mlsso- rl- an staff writer
County and city officials, chewing
over a proposed swap of federal road
and bridge funds at a joint lunch
Thursday, found the trade a little
less tasty than it seemed when first
proposed.
Columbia Public Works Director
Ray Beck said the trade might leave
the city holding the raw end of the
deal.
The swap idea first appeared
March, when the county found it
would receive more federal bridge
funds then expected. The county al-ready
had funded most necessary
county bridge repairs through
bonds. So me County Court asked the
city to consider a deal in which the
county's extra federal bridge funds
would boy repairs on a city bridge.
In return, the city would use its fed
eral urban road funds to rebuild a
county road.
But because of federal guidelines,
the county probably could spend
only 180,000 in federal money to re
pair a coy bridge on Rock Quarry
Road, Beck said. But the city would
spend $ 500,000 from the federal gov-ernment
to rebuild Vaughter School
Roadfor the county.
The state has designated a bridge
on Cedar Creek as its top prionty for
repair. The federal government cal-culates
its contribution as 80 percent
of repair costs on the priority bndge
or $ 180,000. But fixing Rock Quar-ry
Bndge will cost at least $ 400,000.
And that leaves $ 320,000 for either
the city or the county to provide.
Beck mentioned a few other things
about the proposed trade that he
found difficult to swallow.
Because a federally- funde- d bridge
must be built to federal guidelines,
repairing the Rock Quarry Road
bndge through the swap would cost
at least $ 130,000 above the $ 400,000
the repairs were priced at previous-ly,
Beck said.
And, on the road side of the swap,
any repairs on Vaughter School
Road would necessarily divert feder-al
funds from some high- pnont- y city
road project he said.
There's another catch, Beck ex-plained.
After improvements, the
road would attract more users try-ing
to avoid city traffic jams. They
would have to complete their city by-pass
on a part of Green Meadows
Road that also needs improvement
The influx of new drivers might
force the city to drag that portion of
the road to the top of the repair list,
shunting other city projects even
further down the list
Senate backs
big pay raises
for officials
By Jeffrey R. Scott
State capital bureau
JEFFERSON CITY A bill given preliminary ap-proval
by the Senate Thursday would make Missouri
the home of the third- highest- pa- id governor in the
United States in 1985 And Missouri's legislature
would become the ninth- highest- salan- ed legislative
body
The bill which would increase salaries of the
state's top officials in ail three branches of govern-ment
was approved by voice vote Next the bill will
be considered by the Senate's Budget Control Com-mittee
before a final vote by the Senate
The increase would cost an additional $ 16 million
from the state's fiscal 1985 budget
An amendment added Wednesday would allow in
creases for most other state employees to be phased
in during a five- ye- ar penod beginning in 1984 The
amendment accounts for $ 5 million per year of the
bill's estimated cost Most top officials would not get
their pay increases until January 1935
The bill, sponsored by Sen Ed Dirck, D-- St Ann, fol-lows
precisely the recommendations of a special com-mission
on salaries appointed by Gov Chrtstooher
Bond. Under the plan, the governor's salary would in
crease to $ 80,000 a year from the current $ 55,000 and
would make him the third- highest- pa- id governor, be-hind
New York and New Jersey at $ 85,000 each
Pay increases for elected officials range from 40
percent to 50 percent Bond's recommended pay plan
for rank- and- fi- le state employees for fiscal 1984 pro-vides
only a 2 percent ment increase.
Proponents of the bill point out that state elected of-ficials
have not had a pay increase since January 1981
and legislators have not had one since January 1979
The section of the bill that received the most scruti-ny
Thursday calls for raising legislators' salaries to
$ 21,000 from the current$ 15,000
Debate was spurred by an amendment offered by
Sen Emory Melton, R- Cassv- ille Arguing that higher
salanes would precipitate a full- tim- e legislature, he
proposed to delete members of the General Assemblj
from the bill.
" We ought to be a part- tim- e body," he said " It
ought to be an honor to serve in the General Assem-bly
Our Founding Fathers gave no thought to remu-neration
"
Those who agreed with Melton argued it was wrong
for legislators to raise then-- salanes by 40 percent in a
climate of recession and unemployment
But Dirck insisted the increase was not bad man
agement
" It is a raise that is consistent with raises given oth-er
state employees over the past eight years," he said
After Vh hours of heated debate, the amendment
was defeated by a 18- 1- 3 vote
Another amendment to soften the bill's economic
impact on state finances by removing annual cost- of- livi- ng
increases also was defeated Sen John Russell
R- Leban- on, argued the cost- of- livi- ng allowance would
quickly give legislators more than $ 24,000 annually
If Wednesday's amendment is retained, the bill
would give all state employees increases over a five- ye- ar
penod.
Beginning July 1, 1984, an 11- mem- ber commission
would meet to recommend salary adjustments, each
year setting aside one percent of the previous year's
state payroll Dirck said this would cost the state ap-proximately
$ 5 million a year, or $ 27 million over five
years
Workers in the Department of Corrections and Hu-man
Resources are slated to be the first to have their
salanes reviewed by the commission. The commis-sion's
recommendations will be subject to approval b
the General Assembly.
Smoldering landfill debate
heats up as deadline nears
By Leslie Wsrstsln
Wlssourian staff writer
Through a break in some bush-es
along Rogers Road, about five
miles northeast of central Colum-bia,
a man in green fishing attire
can be seen sitting alone by the
lake in the old Peabody Coal strip
mines. He is waiting for the fish
to bite.
Another man stands above the
scene and points to the place
where he, too, sometimes fishes.
" You ought to go down there
right now and ask that fisherman
how he'd feel if that lake were
filled with trash," says Fred
Martz, a 15- ye- ar resident of rural
Boone County. " This is kind of
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like a park back m here too. Any
number of Sundays we go to
church and there is somebody
down here watching birds or
walking their dog or doing
things."
Martz and 17 other residents
parked their pickup trucks and
gathered on an old dirt road near
the rolling hills of the strip mine
Saturday. They organized this
last- ditc- h effort to fight a City
Council proposal one of two
to locate a new landfill for the
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